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Temporal

Durable workflow engine for minutes-to-hours processes; deterministic replay and automatic retries.

Scenario Long-running business workflows, durable agent loops & sagasLicense Open source (MIT)
01

Suitability

Best for

Long-running, stateful orchestration that must survive crashes and resume exactly where it left off.

Watch out

General-purpose workflow infrastructure, not agent-native — you bring the LLM / agent layer yourself.

02

Pattern support

CheckpointingWorkflow DAGHITL Gate
NativeComposable / supportingColor = ladder level L1–L4
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Graph-based, state-driven runtime; explicit nodes and edges, checkpointer-backed.

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Inngest

Event-driven durable execution; steps, retries and flow control over a queue you don't manage.

Shares Checkpointing · Workflow DAGView →Runtime

Restate

Durable execution for distributed services; durable promises, virtual objects and exactly-once handlers.

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